![]() We found evidence to suggest that living standards in the first three decades of the century were particularly poor, perhaps because of the increasingly repressive labour policies in urban areas and famine and land expropriation that weighed especially heavily on the Basotho. We used four data sets to provide an alternative measure of living standards - namely stature - to document, for the first time, living standards of black South Africans over the course of the 20th century. Very little income or wage data were systematically recorded about the living standards of South Africa's black majority during much of the 20th century. IIDepartment of Economics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada ![]() IDepartment of Economics, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa Black living standards in South Africa before democracy: New evidence from heightīokang Mpeta I Johan Fourie I Kris Inwood II
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